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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



being filled with the adnate ovary and the margin bearing the 

 perianth. The latter consists of a short gamosepalous persistent 



Cinchona Calisaya. 



Fig. 333. Floriferous branch (J). 



calyx, with five teeth not contiguous even in the bud,^ and a 

 gamosepalous hypocrateriform corolla, with a long nearly cylindrical 



this proposition has met with little success, so KinJcina Adans. Fam. d^s PL ii. 147. 

 great is the influence of custom, it is not un- ^ Short glandular tongues, single or double, 



reasonable, since generic names, at first incor- may be interposed ; they are perhaps of a 



rectly written, have often been reformed.) — stipulary nature. 



